Editing Call and response (section)

{{Short description|Speaker-audience interaction}}
{{about|call and response in communication}}
{{refimprove|date=January 2015}}
'''Call and response''' is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.<ref>{{citation
 |last         = Foster
 |first        = Michèle
 |chapter      = Pay Leon, Pay Leon, Pay Leon, Paleontologist: Using call-and-response to facilitate language mastery and literacy acquisition among African American Students
 |editor-last  = Lanehart
 |editor-first = Sonja
 |year         = 2001
 |title        = Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English
 |series       = Varieties of English Around the World
 |place        = Amsterdam
 |publisher    = John Benjamins Publishing Company
 |chapter-url          = http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0204foster.html
 |url-status      = dead
 |archive-url   = https://web.archive.org/web/20071214182805/http://www.cal.org/resources/digest/0204foster.html
 |archive-date  = 2007-12-14
}}</ref> This form is also used in music, where it falls under the general category of [[Antiphon|antiphony]].